Journal
LANGMUIR
Volume 29, Issue 6, Pages 1766-1778Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/la304485e
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- National Science Foundation [CHE-1147353]
- CSIR, New Delhi [02(0068)/12/EMR-II]
- UGC, New Delhi
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Ten aliphatic and aromatic ketals of arjunolic acid, a renewable, nanosized triterpenic acid which is obtainable from Terminalia arjuna, have been synthesized upon condensation with aldehydes. Self-assembly properties of the ketals have been studied in a wide range of organic liquids. With the exception of the p-nitrobenzylidene derivative, low concentrations of the ketals self-assemble and form gel-like dispersions in many of the organic liquids examined. The morphologies of the assemblies, studied at different distance scales by optical, electron, and atomic-force microscopies, consisted of fibrillar networks and vesicles which were able to entrap 5(6)-carboxyfluorescein as a guest molecule. X-ray diffractograms indicate that the fibrillar objects are crystalline. A charge-transfer complex was formed from a 1:1 mixture of ketal derivatives with electron-donating and electron-accepting groups, and the 9-anthrylidene derivative in its fibrillar network dimerized upon irradiation. Results demonstrate that subtle changes in the ketal structures can lead to very different aggregation pathways.
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